Archive & searching Almost a OneNote Convert 17.07.2006 16:46:01 Two questions: 1) Is there a way to archive a page and/or section? I have lots of sections & pages for different projects. Once I'm done with a project I'd like to move it off my list of visible tabs in an Archive folder. Making my own Archive section doesn't quite work because when I search it still searches the Archive sections. I don't know how to restrict the search to only "active" sections. How does the OneNote team deal with old section or pages? Surely they don't delete them. 2) I'd like to search explicitly for words in a particular Note flag. For example, I'd like to search for all Todo flags with the word "grocery" in it. Is this possible? Are there any advanced operators available in the search window? If the Notes Flag Summary pane can do this, then this feature must exist. It would be a shame not to expose it to the user. Thanks.

Re: Archive & searching "Patrick Schmid" <pds-ms[ at ]nospam.pschmid.net> 17.07.2006 16:55:42 1) How about an Archive notebook? To avoid it being searched, you could just close it and open it whenever it is needed. Note that the notebook won't be available when closed on any computer that doesn't have .one files for it locally. 2) I've asked about this in the private beta newsgroups, but no reply so far. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net "Almost a OneNote Convert" <AlmostaOneNoteConvert[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0752A9EF-CB7F-4202-9C1D-FF0E054AADAE[ at ]microsoft.com: [Quoted Text] > Two questions: > > 1) Is there a way to archive a page and/or section? I have lots of sections > & pages for different projects. Once I'm done with a project I'd like to move > it off my list of visible tabs in an Archive folder. Making my own Archive > section doesn't quite work because when I search it still searches the > Archive sections. I don't know how to restrict the search to only "active" > sections. How does the OneNote team deal with old section or pages? Surely > they don't delete them. > > 2) I'd like to search explicitly for words in a particular Note flag. For > example, I'd like to search for all Todo flags with the word "grocery" in it. > Is this possible? Are there any advanced operators available in the search > window? If the Notes Flag Summary pane can do this, then this feature must > exist. It would be a shame not to expose it to the user. > > Thanks.

Re: Archive & searching Almost a OneNote Convert 17.07.2006 18:20:02 (1) is an adequate solution, thanks. However, if I wish to archive a page, then this hack loses the context of the page, i.e. it was in my Personal notebook and Investments section. What we really need is to toggle a "Don't search" bit on any notebook, section or page. And we need an extra "search everything" choice. But OneNote is already in beta. Maybe someone will add it as an extension. "Patrick Schmid" wrote: [Quoted Text] > 1) How about an Archive notebook? To avoid it being searched, you could > just close it and open it whenever it is needed. Note that the notebook > won't be available when closed on any computer that doesn't have .one > files for it locally. > > 2) I've asked about this in the private beta newsgroups, but no reply so > far. > > Patrick Schmid > -------------- > http://pschmid.net > > "Almost a OneNote Convert" > <AlmostaOneNoteConvert[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:0752A9EF-CB7F-4202-9C1D-FF0E054AADAE[ at ]microsoft.com: > > > Two questions: > > > > 1) Is there a way to archive a page and/or section? I have lots of sections > > & pages for different projects. Once I'm done with a project I'd like to move > > it off my list of visible tabs in an Archive folder. Making my own Archive > > section doesn't quite work because when I search it still searches the > > Archive sections. I don't know how to restrict the search to only "active" > > sections. How does the OneNote team deal with old section or pages? Surely > > they don't delete them. > > > > 2) I'd like to search explicitly for words in a particular Note flag. For > > example, I'd like to search for all Todo flags with the word "grocery" in it. > > Is this possible? Are there any advanced operators available in the search > > window? If the Notes Flag Summary pane can do this, then this feature must > > exist. It would be a shame not to expose it to the user. > > > > Thanks. > >

Re: Archive & searching Grant Robertson <BOGUS[ at ]BOGUS.com> 18.07.2006 12:07:59 In article <854FD3CD-B682-44D2-9637-1D5B0884FECD[ at ]microsoft.com>, AlmostaOneNoteConvert[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com says... [Quoted Text] > What we really need is to toggle a "Don't > search" bit on any notebook, section or page. And we need an extra "search > everything" choice. I wish ON had a feature like GoBinder has where you can select and deselect the folders and files to search. That, plus saved searches would be really great.

Re: Archive & searching "Erik Sojka (MVP)" <esojka[ at ]ms-onenote.net.nospam> 18.07.2006 22:34:43 If the original context is still needed in the archive, you can either: a) manually duplicate your Folder/Section Group hierarchy inside of the Archive Notebook, and then manually move to the "same" location when archiving. I currently use this method when archiving things. b) copy/paste the link to the item's soon-to-be-previous parent before archiving. If for example, a section is about to be archived, you can add a page at the top of that section with the hyperlink to the current Notebook pasted into it. Then you can archive. =?Utf-8?B?QWxtb3N0IGEgT25lTm90ZSBDb252ZXJ0?= <AlmostaOneNoteConvert[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:854FD3CD-B682-44D2-9637-1D5B0884FECD[ at ]microsoft.com: [Quoted Text] > (1) is an adequate solution, thanks. However, if I wish to archive a > page, then this hack loses the context of the page, i.e. it was in my > Personal notebook and Investments section. What we really need is to > toggle a "Don't search" bit on any notebook, section or page. And we > need an extra "search everything" choice. > > But OneNote is already in beta. Maybe someone will add it as an > extension. > > "Patrick Schmid" wrote: > >> 1) How about an Archive notebook? To avoid it being searched, you >> could just close it and open it whenever it is needed. Note that the >> notebook won't be available when closed on any computer that doesn't >> have .one files for it locally. >> >> 2) I've asked about this in the private beta newsgroups, but no reply >> so far. >> >> Patrick Schmid >> -------------- >> http://pschmid.net >> >> "Almost a OneNote Convert" >> <AlmostaOneNoteConvert[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:0752A9EF-CB7F-4202-9C1D-FF0E054AADAE[ at ]microsoft.com: >> >> > Two questions: >> > >> > 1) Is there a way to archive a page and/or section? I have lots of >> > sections & pages for different projects. Once I'm done with a >> > project I'd like to move it off my list of visible tabs in an >> > Archive folder. Making my own Archive section doesn't quite work >> > because when I search it still searches the Archive sections. I >> > don't know how to restrict the search to only "active" sections. >> > How does the OneNote team deal with old section or pages? Surely >> > they don't delete them. >> > >> > 2) I'd like to search explicitly for words in a particular Note >> > flag. For example, I'd like to search for all Todo flags with the >> > word "grocery" in it. Is this possible? Are there any advanced >> > operators available in the search window? If the Notes Flag Summary >> > pane can do this, then this feature must exist. It would be a shame >> > not to expose it to the user. >> > >> > Thanks. >> >>

Re: Archive & searching "Erik Sojka (MVP)" <esojka[ at ]ms-onenote.net.nospam> 18.07.2006 22:39:29 There are no advanced operators in the search window, but maybe there will be when th WDS3 UI is released. Remember that part of the future of MS software includes the ability to search for anything, anywhere. If the ON UI cannot support all of a person's search needs, the Windows and WDS UIs should. For today, however, you can create a Summary Page from the Note Flags Summary Task Pane, and then use ON's search on just that page to find "grocery". And I don't know if this was just a search example or part of how the OP has his/her flags set up, but if you consistently need to search your "To Do" flags for the same terms, why not make that search term part of a new Flag definition? If you are always flag all of your To Do items using the generic To Do flag, but a portion of your "To Do" items are *all* items to be added to you grocery list, make a new Flag called "Grocery" and use that in the NFS Task Pane? "Patrick Schmid" <pds-ms[ at ]nospam.pschmid.net> wrote in news:OEdrZHcqGHA.2180[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl: <SNIP> [Quoted Text] > > 2) I've asked about this in the private beta newsgroups, but no reply > so far. > > Patrick Schmid > -------------- > http://pschmid.net > <SNIP> >> >> 2) I'd like to search explicitly for words in a particular Note flag. >> For example, I'd like to search for all Todo flags with the word >> "grocery" in it. Is this possible? Are there any advanced operators >> available in the search window? If the Notes Flag Summary pane can do >> this, then this feature must exist. It would be a shame not to expose >> it to the user. >> >> Thanks. >